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Dicranolepis vestita

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Identification
Dicranolepis disticha Planch. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] Dicranolepis vestita Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Peterson, B.,
Related name
  • Dicranolepis disticha
  • Dircranolepis inodora
  • Dicranolepis vestita

Flora

Entry for DICRANOLEPIS vestita Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 1, page 211, (1913) Author: (By J. G. Baker, with additions by C. H. Wright.)
Names
DICRANOLEPIS vestita Engl. [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. vii. 337.
DICRANOLEPIS vestita Engl. var. parviflora [family THYMELAEACEAE], l.c.
DICRANOLEPIS benthamiana Van Tieghem [family THYMELAEACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat. 7 me sér. xvii. 197, partly.
Information
A shrub 8–10 ft. high (Mann) with slender pubescent, later glabrous, branches. Leaves obliquely elliptic-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, subacute, entire, shortly petioled, glabrous above, adpressed-puberulous beneath, 2 1/2–4 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, nodding, clothed on the outside with a dense yellowish-white tomentum, 1–1 1/2 in. long. Calyx-tube stout; lobes 5, broadly lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 as long as the tube, later reflexed. Petals somewhat shorter than the calyx-lobes, divided to the base; segments 10, linear, entire or more or less incised at the apex, at length reflexed. Ovary glabrous; disc thick, leathery; style slender, exserted beyond the stamens. Fruit not seen.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Buea, Deistel, 278! 3200 ft., Lehmbach, 137! Cameroon Mountain, 2000–4000 ft., Mann, 1214! 2161!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Mann!

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